Embiotocidae

The surfperches are a family of viviparous ray-finned fishes, the Embiotocidae. Most species are marine, inhabiting coastal waters from Baja California to Alaska, with a few found in Asian Pacific coasts. The only freshwater species, the tule perch, is endemic to California, United States.

Embiotocidae

Chad King / NOAA MBNMS · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OvalentariaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 33 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Embiotocidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

33 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

9 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WPort Orford — 42.81°N, 124.53°WPort Orford — 42.83°N, 124.56°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WCalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°ENiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Embiotocidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Embiotocidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Embiotocidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

831 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Embiotocidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

16 references

Each of the 33 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 4 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Embiotocidae

Credit
Chad King / NOAA MBNMS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Embiotocidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOvalentaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1853